Volume 3 Issue 10

May 15, 2005

Feature

India’s persons with disability await inclusive sports policyA handful of sportspersons with disabilities have produced tales of struggle, and even triumph. But these are scattered instances, indicative of insensitive and backward policies, which fail to make sports accessible to about seven crore citizens of this country, examines Parvinder Singh.

Interview

“The blind community has no borders and no discrimination”During the recent Petrocup Indo-Pak blind cricket series held from 28 April to 5
May 2005, Anand Vivek Taneja met the captains of both teams, Manavendra
Singh Patwal (India) and Saiyad Sultan Shah (Pakistan),
who shared their views on the game as well as their experiences.

Mental illness to be the greatest killer by 2020A three-day conference on ‘Recent
Trends in Mental Health in India’ drew attention to a rapid increase in
cases of mental illness, and the lack of policy implementation for dealing with
these cases both at the preventive and treatment level.